Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-20
FORT WORTH UNNECESSARILY RE
VIEW

tORT w ORTH. X, Jan. ~. 1851,
Trade was fair to-day. Butter has de-
clined and the market is everstocked.
Eggs are very slow at quotations. Chick
ems have declined in price, the best sell
Ing at 81 per dozen. Turkeys are lower.
Oranges have declined. The quality at
present in market is very poor.
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's from
leading trade centers characterize the
general commercial movement as irregu-
lar, with the outlook fsvoriDg increased
activity IN the distribution of staple pro-
ducts. In the lower Mississippi valley
cold and wet weather has checked
marketing Of agricultural products,
while west and northwest low tenn
perature has facilitated the ship
ment of grain from the interior. Mild
weather which followed has checked
trading at interior points to some extent
At Brooklyn and Providence, r. l., man
ufacturing industries have felt the scar
city of coal, caused by the $500 New
Jersey coal-handlers' strike, while from
10000 TO $4,000 Pennsylvania anthracite
miners are idle, owing to inability to send
coal east. Retail prices have touched
IS to $40 per ton at New York, and q
genuine coal famine at eastern centers
" moui I aoIio" ano .ho meen etaoa go
peCted TO make 81 advance for anthracite
for 1887, of which so cents per ton was to
90 to the miner.
Other characteristics of trade have
| been reactions in wheat, hog products,
hogs, coffee and Cott,n, and advances in
steel rails, nails, sugar and petroleum.
Leading domestic money markets have
been easier, and funds are flowing from
the country to nearly all centers. Total
clearingS from thirty-three cities Einclud-
ing st. PauD, especially wired to Brad
streets, aggregate 1892 59G, 4l6, against
Sl,043, o24 last week, and S9+S 49,
029 in the second week Of 1886, a loss Of
$50, $3.50, 4OS, or per cent. on the week,
and gain of S'4 ,309, 3S7, or u per cent.
on the like week 1886 New IOrk's de-
cline this week, due to the checked spec
ulative and export movement, was S44,-
| 100000. Other variations were:
Clearings Ph Ills Zoo Chicago Baltimore loh 6o.
f RIo UOO ew SrIe H FirtaSUru
Increases. 81, 10000 100000 SlOO. 600
The speciallv reported gross earnings
of sixtv seven railways dnrinu each of
three Years mast show increases of & $40
per cent in 1856 over 1855. and of t 10
per cent in 1856 over 1884, as follows:
Earnings g. RaiIvavs.. 1856 ,..., SPA. 20 200
" 49,. ISs5........ 226,23 .2Sa
..-.lsS4..-'...- 227,519,O'9
The New York stock market has been
dull and inactive, the expected passage
of the Cullom- Reagan bill checking any
general speculative activity. There was,
however, some manipulation of and adj
vances in certain Southern stocks, based
on prospective consultations ST leading
roads of that sec ion. Transactions for
the week were 1875, $40 shares, against
/, "a, go shares last week and :, 023, 1858
Bonds are dull, with little demands for
investments. A few issues were active
and advanced on special causes.
against S7,O4G, 500 the preceding week.
Money has been in good supply,
with call loans 4@G per cent. Stocks
| have been sold moderately Tor foreign &C
count, which, with an increased inquiry
for exchange owing to interest remit
t"nces, advanced rates OF exchange from
ltc to &c.
Wheat has been weaker on checked
CPSSNAoHA'S uHN N>PNAt Ni~hAs 1oA 81
visible and afloat STOCKS, with weaker
cables III the lace OF hurope's heaVy re-
qulrements PRIOR to August. The Cali
fornla drouth is not broken yet, and the
Chilian crop Is reported seriously snort.
Hog products were speculatlvely weaker,
and prices went on with full re-
ceipts OF hogs at the Wet. Coffee
is &c higher despite two reactions, that
Yesterday being IN sympathy with Havre.
Brazilian prices are &c higher on the
week. There Is an increased consump-
higher. RaWs, OF course, nave no local
demand owing to the stOppage OF re-
Rneries on account of the coal STRIKE.
H nnehuo y; on 49, Ia ga sttit NJ
Europe Is hrher anu oeet siIner Win the
closing of the ElOe by ice. Steel
rai1s $40 ar mill 10 OO0 tons hev-
- ct,o. - $50
nS oeen sou d. Onl9aSo az otl'oV
Nails have been advanced to $3.50 and
bar iron promises to 90 to 2 &c. Pig iron
10 80 ar,,, ~ for1ner aonros South
Is FSly III III al ioi lhei hS oou1n
aud West SOC advances have been made.
Eastern cotton mills are sold ahead in